• PC craches randomly while playing few games.
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I have no idea why it's happening, but my PC crashes randomly whenever I play any of these games: -Tribal Ascend -Dungeon Defender -Legend of Grimrock I've put it into a list because it may grow because I've few new games from friend which I'll be playing in a bit. The crash looks pretty strange, my screens turn off, I hear the last 0.01second of the sound looped (so its really scretchy) then after 5-6 seconds it stops scretching and I can hear the sounds all fine (Sounds of games, wmp playing music), but screens are still off and turning them off and on doesnt help, ALT+CTRL+DELETE doesn't help either, only reset helps. I think that if we'll look for similiarity between these games, we can find a solution for this issue. My specs: Intel Core Duo E7400 2.80 GHz 4GB RAM Windows 7 x64 All recent updates for Windows and graphic card drivers downloaded. These are the temperatures my GPU go to during the play of these games: Tribal Ascend: 104'C Dungeon Defenders: 116'C Legend of Grimrock: 110'C @Edit: Okay, I think it may overheat.
Have you checked temperatures
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;35573849]Have you checked temperatures[/QUOTE] Yes, it's definitely not overheating. I can play many games that would cause overheat more likely than any of the mentioned game.
Are you running the games with dx10 or 11? Because whenever i play games with dx10 or above, they randomly crash, so i have to change it to dx9. It does not make much difference in terms of graphics btw.
Sounds like a graphics problem to me, since you are still able to hear games, and music or whatever, and have a blank screen usually points to a failing graphics card, this could be due to a few reasons, the most likely is that your driver is crashing, I did notice that all three games you have listed run on Unreal Engine 3, and I am willing to bet that all UE3 based games will do this on your computer. I need to know more about your computer since you failed to mention which graphics card you are using, it may be easier to find a solution with a little more info :)
[QUOTE=BowedYapper;35576527]Sounds like a graphics problem to me, since you are still able to hear games, and music or whatever, and have a blank screen usually points to a failing graphics card, this could be due to a few reasons, the most likely is that your driver is crashing, I did notice that all three games you have listed run on Unreal Engine 3, and I am willing to bet that all UE3 based games will do this on your computer. I need to know more about your computer since you failed to mention which graphics card you are using, it may be easier to find a solution with a little more info :)[/QUOTE] It's NVidia GeForce 9600GT Also I don't think it's only graphics card issue, because as I've mentioned, I can hear the looped sounds scretching very badly and in Dungeon Defenders it won't stop scretching, I just hear that sound over and over again and it sounds like somemone ridding with electrical tooth brusher over my ears. [QUOTE=chazzball;35576325]Are you running the games with dx10 or 11? Because whenever i play games with dx10 or above, they randomly crash, so i have to change it to dx9. It does not make much difference in terms of graphics btw.[/QUOTE] I play Tribal Ascend on DX9 for sure (cause I can see that in the bar while playing it in windowed mode), but I don't know about the rest. Sidenote: I've been playing Saints Row the third on DX11 for hours and hours without any crash.
Your GPU is overheating. Open up your case and see if the gpu and cpu heatsink are dusty.
are you sure you're connected to the internet? kidding, but I have the same exact issue as you OP. I did some research and it IS your GPU, although overheating might not be an issue (my temperatures are fine, there's no dust and it still crashes). if your GPU is still in warranty, get it fixed. it's failing on you mate
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